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Electricity savings from residential appliance standards in Sweden
Turiel, I.; Lebot, B. (Agence Francaise pour la … - 2008
This paper discusses the energy savings that could be obtained in Sweden by instituting specific standards for five appliances: Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. At the present time, Sweden has no minimum energy efficiency standards for residential...
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities …
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A Comparative Analysis of Water Quality Sampling Decisions in Aquifers
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Kuchibhatla, Ramana - 1995
No single set of sampling decisions is optimal for all monitoring programs. Cost-effective decisions will have to be made in an adaptive framework, constantly changing yet having a basic structure. The major objectives of this paper are to develop and illustrate such a model structure for...
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The Point-of-Use Water Treatment Industry: Expert Opinion on Regulation.
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Tobin, Graham A - 1990
Concerns over declining water quality have led many home owners to install point-of-use water treatment units to improve potable supplies. This industry has grown considerably in recent years. However, some questions have been raised regarding misleading advertising and improper claims being...
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Moral Agency, Profits and the Firm: Economic Revisions to the Friedman Theorem
Wagner-Tsukamoto, Sigmund - 2007
The paper reconstructs in economic terms Friedman’s theorem that the only social responsibility of firms is to increase their profits while staying within legal and ethical rules. A model of three levels of moral conduct is attributed to the firm: (1) self-interested engagement in the market...
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A comparative analysis of entrepreneurial approaches within public healthcare organisations
Rowe, Patricia A.; Boyce, Rosalie A; Boyle, Maree V.; … - 2004
This article examines the development of two distinct models of organising allied health professionals within two public sector health service organisations in Australia. The first case illustrated a mode of organising that facilitated a culture that focused on asset protection and whose...
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A multi method investigation into the costs and into the benefits of measuring intellectual capital assets
Gray, Dina - 2005
This study sets out to address the question of whether the costs and thebenefitsof measuring intellectual capital assets differ dependingon thedriver for that measure.Although pressure is growing onfirms to measure and report on theirintellectual capital assets no research hasyet been published...
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A stakeholder perspective of strategy formation
Booth, C; Segon, M - 2008
Strategy formation traditionally involves the use analytical tools and highly structured processes (Heracleous, 1998; Wilson, 1998; Mintzberg 1994; Porter, 1980). This approach continues to assist in surfacing the 'wicked' nature of strategic issues and testing of assumptions in strategy making,...
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The application of sustainable development principles to the theory and practice of property valuation
Lorenz, David Philipp - 2006
investigates the rationale for immediately and rigorously integrating sustainability issues into property valuation theory and … practice and proposes theoretical and practical options for valuers on how to address sustainability issues within valuation …
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Ecolabelling of Seafood
Department of Environmental Biology
Ecolabelling provides consumers with the opportunity to make informed choices about the seafood they purchase, at the fresh fish bar, in supermarkets, cafes and restaurants. A recent book Seafood Ecolabelling: Principles and Practice deals with seafood, both farmed and wild capture, and...
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